Educational Activities

CGD is a strong supporter of educational activities at NCAR, the scholastic arenas and the general community.  We have a broad range of participation as shown in the table below.

The Geophysical Statistics Project continues.  This project encourages the application of statistical analysis and the development of new statistical methods in the geophysical sciences.  The overriding programmatic strategy is to bring in young postdoctoral fellows to collaborate with resident NCAR geophysical scientists.  Also, the statistics visitors supported by this project provide statistics guidance to the fellows.  This structure allows for growth in the careers of the young statistics postdoctoral fellows as well as providing additional research tools to the geophysical sciences.  For more information, please see http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/stats/asr01/index.html

As part of the CCSM activity CGD provides users the ability to access and format output data in a user-friendly manner.  S. Murphy and D. Shea (both of CAS)  are  responsible for the training and education of CCSM users on available data processing and visualization tools. To facilitate this, they have developed an e-knowledge portal for training and performance support.  This portal contains three levels of knowledge content: context sensitive job assistance, structured training, and user community information.  The portal can be accessed at: http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/csm/support.  Additionally, S. Murphy and D. Shea conduct four-day workshops that instruct CCSM students in basic netCDF theory, the NCL language, the use of NCL user interfaces for data visualization, and the functionality available in several types of operators.  In FY01, five workshops were held for CCMS users  from around the country; four at NCAR and one at UCLA.   Training manuals have been created mirroring the topics covered by the workshop. These, as well as the workshop presentations, are available for download from the e-knowledge portal.  Each year CGD holds a CCSM Workshop which brings together CCSM users throughout the community.  At the workshop, participants present findings based on either  model output from simulations or model development.